“The villas boast a uniquely privileged location, nestled among rich natural landscapes of olive groves, cypress trees, and local herbs emerging from the sand dunes, just steps from their thresholds. To harmoniously integrate them into the Messinian landscape, we aimed to create a distinctive identity from which a series of villas would emerge, each uniquely adapted to its surroundings yet sharing a common architectural language.

To achieve this, we drew inspiration from two linked but separate sources. The first of these is the clearly distinguishable exoskeleton of classical Greek architecture, as seen in shrines nearby, where the enclosed core is surrounded by on exterior structure (or stoa) that allows the building to enjoy a smooth transition from indoors to outdoors through a perimetrical façade that softens the building’s outline. We also took into account other features of a classical temple: its geometric purity, its rhythmic repetition of elements of elegant proportions, and its absolute symmetry.” K-Studio